Isn't this the same journal that openly announced it would be rejecting any scientific studies that were not left enough for them? They openly state "Science shouldn't offend".

They openly "reject any article deemed to pose a threat to disadvantaged groups, irrespective of whether or not its central claims are true, or at least well-supported."

https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/p/science-shouldnt-offen...

I will seek my answers to the universe elsewhere.

The causal links in this analysis are very heterogeneous.

Some causes for accelerated aging seem relatively direct and plausible with causal models that have supporting literature, i.e. air quality.

On the societal level, it's much more complicated. For example, there will be an immense number of paths how education affect aging, some positive and some negative.

I wonder how much of those effects boil down to a few highly influential (unobserved?) covariates, such as physical activity, drug consumption and crime rate.

[edit] by the way, look at the replication materials - I've rarely seen such clean code. Kudos!

https://github.com/euroladbrainlat/Biobehavioral-age-gaps/bl...

Any biological effect on the relative speed at which individuals age would be far dominated by the actual huge increases in average population age that countries are seeing (e.g. the mean age in Germany is now over 45 years). Not only does an older population mean a more conservative population, because people on average are more conservative when they're older, but an aging population also means each young person has to support more and more retirees, putting an increasing burden on the living standards of Gen Z that causes some to doubt the fairness of the system they inhabit.

I think this can be summarized as:

1. Stress is bad for you. 2. Things that cause widespread societal stress are thus bad for you.

Economic inequality, weak democratic institutions all seem to suggest that people are more stressed as a result and I believe it is already universally acknowledged that chronic stress is bad for you.

I guess one needed a headline that gets clicks but it is sort of obvious.